[skippermike]

My computer has 2 hard drives:

Master Windows
Slave Ubuntu

Windows drive accessed first for dual-boot menu.


My question is this...

How do I take Windows drive out completely, and boot from Ubuntu as master?

Thx

[lotuseclat79]

Hi skippermike,

There are commonly a couple of different ways depending on whether you are using Grub or not.

One way is in the Linux /boot/<dir>/menu.lst file, change the value of Default=0 to Default=1 or visa versa in a Grub oriented scheme that displays a Grub boot menu to make the selection. Default sets the dual boot selection to be one or the other (Windows, Linux).

The other way is to specify the boot disk in the BIOS.

There may be another way with a Windows boot loader, but I do not know it.

-- Tom

[akolagtech]

Originally Posted by skippermike

My computer has 2 hard drives:

Master Windows
Slave Ubuntu

Windows drive accessed first for dual-boot menu.


My question is this...

How do I take Windows drive out completely, and boot from Ubuntu as master?

Thx

First since your BIOS only recorgnize one Operating system at a time, You have to make the Slave drive become a master. To do that you need to shut down your computer, take out the both drive and change the "Jumper pin" on each side of the drive. The pin might be in different location depending on your hard drive model

[skippermike]

Thanks for the help...

I have looked at the menu.lst file and it shows the following (summarized):

default 0

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd1,0)

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)


Will the following work?

Comment out the Windows section, change root to (hd0,0) for Ubuntu, and then reconfigure Ubuntu drive as master. (remembering that I intend to remove Windows drive entirely)

Mike

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Mike,

Just edit the menu.lst file and change:
default=0
to
default=1
then Ubuntu will boot up by default (after timeout period (seconds)) which you can also modify.

-- Tom

[skippermike]

Great stuff Tom, Thank you very much